Hate Speech Dataset from a White Supremacy Forum

Ona de Gibert, Naiara Perez, Aitor García-Pablos, Montse Cuadros


Abstract
Hate speech is commonly defined as any communication that disparages a target group of people based on some characteristic such as race, colour, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or other characteristic. Due to the massive rise of user-generated web content on social media, the amount of hate speech is also steadily increasing. Over the past years, interest in online hate speech detection and, particularly, the automation of this task has continuously grown, along with the societal impact of the phenomenon. This paper describes a hate speech dataset composed of thousands of sentences manually labelled as containing hate speech or not. The sentences have been extracted from Stormfront, a white supremacist forum. A custom annotation tool has been developed to carry out the manual labelling task which, among other things, allows the annotators to choose whether to read the context of a sentence before labelling it. The paper also provides a thoughtful qualitative and quantitative study of the resulting dataset and several baseline experiments with different classification models. The dataset is publicly available.
Anthology ID:
W18-5102
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Abusive Language Online (ALW2)
Month:
October
Year:
2018
Address:
Brussels, Belgium
Editors:
Darja Fišer, Ruihong Huang, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran, Rob Voigt, Zeerak Waseem, Jacqueline Wernimont
Venue:
ALW
SIG:
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Note:
Pages:
11–20
Language:
URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-5102
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-5102
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Cite (ACL):
Ona de Gibert, Naiara Perez, Aitor García-Pablos, and Montse Cuadros. 2018. Hate Speech Dataset from a White Supremacy Forum. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Abusive Language Online (ALW2), pages 11–20, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
Hate Speech Dataset from a White Supremacy Forum (de Gibert et al., ALW 2018)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-5102.pdf
Code
 aitor-garcia-p/hate-speech-dataset +  additional community code
Data
Hate Speech